Barron County Board of Supervisors: the Haugen donations, the VSO appointment and the Veterans Outreach Program
The Barron County Board of Supervisors (chair Louis Okey, 29 supervisors; County Clerk Jessica Hodek; Administrator Jeff French) meets in the Government Center's Veterans Memorial Auditorium and carried the 2025-2026 veteran items: the Haugen Auxiliary's $8,000 check to the Veterans Office (presented as $1,000 on November 3, 2025 and corrected on the January 12, 2026 minutes), the Haugen Legion Post's $6,000 unmet-needs check (April 21, 2026), Tom Pichelman's Veterans Service Commission reappointment (November 3, 2025), Shellie Shaw's Veterans Service Officer appointment (February 16, 2026) and Casey Stoeberl's assistant hire (March 17, 2026), the 2026 Veterans Outreach Program's Recognition Ceremony and Benefits Fair at Northwoods Tech in Rice Lake, and the office's budget lines; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
Also called: Board of Supervisors, Louis Okey, Jessica Hodek, Jeff French, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Haugen Auxiliary, Haugen Legion Post, $8,000, $6,000, unmet needs, Veterans Service Commission, Tom Pichelman, Shellie Shaw, Casey Stoeberl, Veterans Outreach Program, Northwoods Tech, Rice Lake, VSO - Aid to Vet, State Aid - Veterans, Barron, Rice Lake, Chetek, Cumberland, Turtle Lake, Cameron, Almena, Dallas, Prairie Farm, Haugen, New Auburn.
The board. The Board of Supervisors meets in the Government Center's Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 335 East Monroe Avenue, Barron - "Barron County Government Center - Veterans Memorial Auditorium" heads every 2025 and 2026 agenda and minute - and streams on youtube.com/c/BarronCountyMeetings. Chair Louis Okey; County Clerk Jessica Hodek; County Administrator Jeff French. The archive at www.co.barron.wi.us/meetings.cfm posts each meeting's agenda, minutes and packet as PDF; the window's 89 Board of Supervisors files of 2025 and 2026 were downloaded and read whole.
The veteran items, in order: the November 3, 2025 minutes - "Supervisor P. Anderson presented a $1,000.00 check from the Haugen Auxiliary to the Barron County Veterans Office" and, under APPOINTMENTS, "b. VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION - REAPPOINT TOM PICHELMAN: Motion: (Nelson/Turcott) to approve. Carried with 29 Yes"; the January 12, 2026 minutes - "APPROVE MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 3, 2025: Motion: (Banks/Thompson) to change the amount from $1,000 to $8,000 for the check provided to the Barron County Veterans Office from the Haugen Auxiliary and approve. Carried"; the February 16, 2026 minutes - "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Led by Assistant County Veterans Service Officer Shellie Shaw ... Assistant County Veterans Service Officer Shellie Shaw introduced herself as the new Veterans Service Officer, pending County Board approval later in the meeting", and "A. VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER - APPOINT SHELLIE SHAW: Motion: (Nelson/Cook) to approve"; the March 17, 2026 minutes - "County Veterans Service Officer Shaw introduced new Assistant CVSO Casey Stoeberl, who transferred from the Jail, and also discussed donated funds received and how they are disbursed to address unmet needs for veterans within the community"; the April 21, 2026 minutes - "Administrator French and Supervisor P. Anderson thanked the Haugen Legion Post for the $6,000 donation check for the Veterans Service Office received prior to the meeting that will be used for unmet needs for Barron County veterans"; the July 20, 2026 agenda - "2026 Veterans Outreach Program - Administrator French noted the Veterans Service Office's upcoming event, Recognition Ceremony and Benefits Fair - Saturday, August 15, 2026 at Northwoods Tech in Rice Lake and the flyer was included in the packet"; and the August 17, 2026 minutes - "Supervisor P. Anderson complimented the Barron County Veterans Outreach Program Event which took place on Saturday, August 16th at Northwoods Technical College located in Rice Lake" (the county's own records give the event both dates).
The commission and the budget lines. The Veterans Service Commission's per-diem report names Donald Jacobson, Larry Johnson and Thomas Pichelman as its members, and the county board's Veterans Service Committee carries Gary Nelson, William Schradle and Craig Turcott. The 2026 budget packet carries "State Aid - Veterans' Service" among the intergovernmental revenues, "Veteran's Revenue - Donations - C/O" beside the park lines, and "Veteran Service Office", "VSO - Aid to Vet's C/O", "VSO - Care of Vet's Graves C/O" and "VSO - Donation Aid C/O" among the public-health-and-human-services expenditures; the March 26, 2025 budget-amendment minutes carry "#21 - Veteran Affairs" among the county's funds. The board's 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 budget public hearings were held in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium itself.
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